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Incorporating Water Safety Activities and Content in Physical and Health Education
The school environment is an ideal venue to teach water-safety skills and knowledge, although barriers to this content delivery exist. Two commonly cited barriers are a lack of teacher water safety knowledge and access to aquatic facilities. This paper offers water-safety background knowledge for teachers, and includes three dry-land activities and resource links for K-12 PHE classes.

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